Hello, Thanks for joining me today on the podcast.

This podcast is dedicated to helping home educators

discover more resources for being effective at educating,

compassionate as parents, and becoming truly awesome adults.

Many of you are new to my world.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

I know we are just gathering in a surprising number of parents who never

ever dreamed of homeschooling and yet during this pandemic have discovered that they actually

like being home with their kids, guiding

their educations, seeing their children flourish under this tutorial model

that we all value so much. If that's you, welcome. I invite you and those of you who are

long-term homeschoolers to visit brave rider.com slash homebound for a variety of offerings that are free and designed to help you

during this period where you are learning how to teach your kids, learning how to collaborate with them on their learning journey.

Today is an unusual podcast. We will be looking at an article put out by

Harvard magazine that is called The Risks of Home Schooling.

I've been mulling over a response and this is literally my fifth time in an attempt to record what I think about that article.

My voice is still recovering from the surgery I had in January

and I am finding that it is still a little raspy. I'm doing

everything I can. I drink lots of water. I do vocal warm-ups with a kazoo

blowing bubbles, reciting phrases, steaming my vocal cords,

I even spend time humming and shaking my mouth like this, all these things, massaging my neck, and even then I still

have this little edge.

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